Lisa Jahn-Clough: Lisa Jahn-Clough has published over a dozen picture books and three young adult novels. Her work has won awards from Child Magazine , Parent's Choice , Bank Street, Raising Readers, and Entertainment Weekly . Lisa earned a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Emerson College and has been writing and teaching ever since. She lives with her husband in Portland, Maine in the summer and in southern NJ in the winter. Ed Briant: Ed Briant is an author, illustrator, and sequential artist who began his career illustrating for magazines and newspapers in London. He later moved to New York and worked with such publications as The New York Times , The Atlantic Monthly , and The New Yorker . Ed now dedicates his art to illustrating children's books.